Big Mon - The Songs Of Bill Monroe, |
Country and western is ignored by the intellectuals. They don't look at it as an art form. They think it's just somebody sitting on his couch singing about his life. |
Country's hip; it's cool music. |
He was listening to a lot of jazz and a lot of horn players. He was just real open with his playing and went places musically that other musicians weren't going. He would break out a whole vocabulary of licks that nobody else was doing on the fiddle. |
I hate negative songs; I won't sing them. It doesn't matter if it's sold 2 million more albums. |
I hope you came out to hear some bluegrass music. If you didn't, we're both in the wrong place. |
I just remember standing there, singing with the headphones on and the strings playing, just how wonderful that felt. But we so rarely got to go out and do it. Obviously, we don't carry a 70-80-piece orchestra with us when we do shows. |
I look back to when I got divorced in the late 1970s. When that happened, I was so broken up. After that, I decided to seek God for my life and my next marriage. |
I think the country as a whole is embracing this music more than it ever has. |
I'm not a goody-two-shoes. I'm just a father with four children. |
It's part of the calling to at least do a few songs in the show that give people some hope. There's so much hurt in this world and ... music is such a great healing balm and a great way to forget your troubles. |
Maybe you're going to a concert thinking you're not going to hear anything but music. But you may walk away from there with an answer to a problem that you're carrying around with you that you didn't think you were going to hear about. |
more than my last album for Atlantic [his previous label]. |
My dad was a guitar player, and he sang. He knew what he liked about music. He had a great memory, and he could show me things. |
Soldier Of The Cross, |